[Qgis-developer] Portable Osgeo4w QGIS?

[Frank Warmerdam]

luca_manganelli at comune.trento.it wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to make a portable osgeo4w qgis on a CD.
> 
> I've found two problems:
> 
>  - On one system that doesn't have the Microsoft Visual C++ 2005
> redistrutables, qgis doesn't start.

Luca,

Yes, I'm afraid this is an inevitable result of our trying to do things
the "microsoft natural way".  You will either need to require the
redistributables to already be installed, or add a mechanism to try and
install them when first using the portable qgis.

>  - If I put ECW dlls in the OSGEO4W bin dir, QGIS doesn't load them.

I'm surprised.  How does this manifest?  A complaint from the OS
when qgis.exe is run that one of the dlls is not found?

Best regards,
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